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Stake-out leads to drug arrest

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A Gainesville man has been arrested on drug charges at a location in the 1700 block of Browns Bridge Road by Hall County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) investigators who had been…

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Ossoff bill would affect prisons nationwide

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This summer, Georgia women testified to the abuse of pregnant women in Georgia’s prisons and jails -including Alto’s Lee Arrendale Prison. EARLIER STORY. POSTED AUG 4: Habersham state prison referenced…

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Little movement in gas prices

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Gas prices held steady for the most part nationwide, across Georgia and in Hall County this past week, according to AAA. “We could be heading into a period of relative…

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Prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in fatal movie set shooting
Prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in fatal movie set shooting

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on [...]

UN investigative team says Syria’s new authorities `very receptive’ to probe of Assad war crimes

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation [...]

Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control
Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s current governor and his successor tacked on another lawsuit Monday disputing a key provision within a GOP law that erodes the powers of several [...]

FAA probes holiday drone show accident that injured a boy in Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it has launched an investigation into why several drones collided and fell from the sky during a holiday show [...]

CFIUS unable to reach consensus on Nippon Steel’s U.S. Steel bid, WaPo reports
CFIUS unable to reach consensus on Nippon Steel’s U.S. Steel bid, WaPo reports

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has told the White House it is unable to reach a consensus on national security risks involved [...]

Democracy heads into 2025 bloodied but unbowed
Democracy heads into 2025 bloodied but unbowed

By Mark Bendeich LONDON (Reuters) – Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called [...]

Israeli military says intercepted projectile that was launched from Yemen

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen. The [...]

Exclusive-Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report
Exclusive-Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report

(Reuters) – The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s expected to show famine spreading across the country, a [...]

World Bank announces $12 million for Vanuatu quake recovery
World Bank announces $12 million for Vanuatu quake recovery

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank on Tuesday announced $12 million towards emergency response and recovery in Vanuatu, a week after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed at least [...]

Trial for suspect in second Trump assassination attempt delayed
Trial for suspect in second Trump assassination attempt delayed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday delayed a trial for the suspect in the second assassination attempt of President-elect Donald Trump until September 2025, according to a court order. [...]

Biden vetoes bill adding new judges to courts following Trump’s win
Biden vetoes bill adding new judges to courts following Trump’s win

(Reuters) – Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that lawmakers in his [...]

Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control
Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s current governor and his successor tacked on another lawsuit Monday disputing a key provision within a GOP law that erodes the powers of several [...]

Texas GOP Rep. Kay Granger set back by health challenges in last months in Congress, office says
Texas GOP Rep. Kay Granger set back by health challenges in last months in Congress, office says

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas is having “unforeseen health challenges” that have worsened in the final months of her more than two [...]

Former US President Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever
Former US President Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever

(Reuters) -Former Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton, 78, was hospitalized on Monday with a fever, according to his deputy chief of staff. It is not an emergency situation, NBC News [...]

Prosecutors: Brooklyn businessman will plead guilty to conspiracy charge in case against Mayor Adams
Prosecutors: Brooklyn businessman will plead guilty to conspiracy charge in case against Mayor Adams

NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn real estate magnate accused of working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans [...]

Stellantis unit to pay $4.2 million to resolve California emissions probe
Stellantis unit to pay $4.2 million to resolve California emissions probe

(Reuters) – Stellantis unit FCA US agreed to pay $4.2 million to resolve a California investigation into excess emissions, the state said on Monday. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) [...]

Asia shares rise, dollar underpinned by elevated bond yields
Asia shares rise, dollar underpinned by elevated bond yields

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks edged up on Tuesday, though moves were subdued in a holiday-curtailed week, while the greenback held near a two-year high helped by [...]

BOJ debated need for caution in raising rates, Oct minutes show
BOJ debated need for caution in raising rates, Oct minutes show

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan policymakers agreed in October to keep raising interest rates if the economy moves in line with their forecast, but some stressed the [...]

Oil prices up in thin pre-Christmas trade
Oil prices up in thin pre-Christmas trade

By Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices were up on Tuesday in thin trade ahead of the Christmas Day holiday, with prices supported by U.S. economic data and rising [...]

Amicorp Group denies alleged fraud of over $7 billion in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal
Amicorp Group denies alleged fraud of over $7 billion in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Corporate services provider Amicorp Group has denied allegations it knowingly facilitated more than $7 billion in fraudulent transactions related to the misappropriation of funds from scandal-hit Malaysian [...]

Pornhub is quitting Florida

(SRN NEWS) – The largest pornography website on the internet says it will no longer do business in the Sunshine State because of a law that requires it to verify that [...]

More disturbing suicide numbers from Canada

(SRN NEWS) – The government says that of all the non-terminally ill people who took their own life with the help of a doctor last year, about HALF were simply [...]

A new look at religious persecution around the globe

(SRN NEWS) – The Pew Research Center has crunched the numbers for 2022 — the last year for which all the data is in — and reveals that 30% of the [...]

Transgender advocates have a new strategy

(SRN NEWS) – Under pressure to address the problem of males competing against females in sports, many LGBT spokesmen are arguing that because there are very few trans athletes overall [...]

RELIGION HEADLINES

(SRN NEWS) – The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the 10 Commandments has been sold at auction for more than five million dollars.  Sotheby’s says the 155-pound marble slab [...]

Nuggets G Jamal Murray has sprained ankle, out vs. Suns
Nuggets G Jamal Murray has sprained ankle, out vs. Suns

Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray will not play against the visiting Phoenix Suns on Monday night due to a sprained ankle, coach Michael Malone announced in his pregame availability. Malone [...]

Bruins F David Pastrnak suffers upper-body injury vs. Capitals
Bruins F David Pastrnak suffers upper-body injury vs. Capitals

Boston Bruins star forward David Pastrnak was deemed “unlikely to return” to Monday’s game against the visiting Washington Capitals due to an upper-body injury. It was unclear when or how [...]

Embiid ejected after drawing 2 technicals in game against Wembanyama and Spurs
Embiid ejected after drawing 2 technicals in game against Wembanyama and Spurs

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was ejected in the first half of Monday night’s game against San Antonio after drawing two technical fouls. Referee Jenna Schroeder ejected [...]

Raiders’ Pierce after win hurts draft order: ‘We don’t do this to lose’
Raiders’ Pierce after win hurts draft order: ‘We don’t do this to lose’

Before Week 16, the Las Vegas Raiders were neck-and-neck with the New York Giants for the distinction of worst record in the NFL and the reward that comes with it: [...]

Matthew Tkachuk hurt in collision; Nikita Kucherov ejected
Matthew Tkachuk hurt in collision; Nikita Kucherov ejected

Florida Panthers star forward Matthew Tkachuk exited with a lower-body injury after a knee-on-knee collision with Tampa Bay Lightning star forward Nikita Kucherov on Monday night in Sunrise, Fla. With [...]

Exclusive-Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report
Exclusive-Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report

(Reuters) – The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s expected to show famine spreading across the country, a [...]

Merck to discontinue drug for bacterial infection
Merck to discontinue drug for bacterial infection

(Reuters) – Merck will discontinue its drug for a bacterial infection that can lead to fatal diarrhea, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s website showed on Monday. The antibody drug, [...]

NeueHealth to be taken private by New Enterprise Associates in $1.3 billion deal

(Reuters) -NeueHealth will be taken private by its largest shareholder New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a group of existing investors in a $1.3 billion deal, including debt, the healthcare provider [...]

New Zealand confident H7 bird flu confined to one farm
New Zealand confident H7 bird flu confined to one farm

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm [...]

US says former Humanigen chief scientific officer charged with insider trading

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An indictment unsealed on Monday charged the former chief scientific officer of biopharmaceutical company Humanigen with engaging in an insider trading scheme involving the [...]

Movie Review: Nicole Kidman commands the erotic office drama ‘Babygirl’
Movie Review: Nicole Kidman commands the erotic office drama ‘Babygirl’

The demands of achieving both one-day shipping and a satisfying orgasm collide in Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl,” a kinky and darkly comic erotic thriller about sex in the Amazon era. Nicole [...]

Exclusive-Microsoft works to add non-OpenAI models into 365 Copilot products, sources say
Exclusive-Microsoft works to add non-OpenAI models into 365 Copilot products, sources say

By Anna Tong and Krystal Hu Microsoft has been working on adding internal and third-party artificial intelligence models to power its flagship AI product Microsoft 365 Copilot, in a bid [...]

Talen Energy to appeal FERC’s rejection of Amazon data center deal

(Reuters) – Talen Energy plans to contest the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) rejection of an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center at its Pennsylvania nuclear plant, the [...]

Google’s proposed search result changes get thumbs up from EU airlines
Google’s proposed search result changes get thumbs up from EU airlines

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google’s proposed changes to its search results to comply with EU tech legislation has received the thumbs up from lobbying group Airlines [...]

AI will eavesdrop on world’s wildest places to track and help protect endangered wildlife
AI will eavesdrop on world’s wildest places to track and help protect endangered wildlife

PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica (AP) — The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track. So biologist Jenna Lawson [...]